Lexus RX test drive since 2008 SUV
Non -prying
The hybrid Lexus RX 450H is very similar to a regular premium-circle, but showing at the start a rich power that lives under his hood, he will not let it in heating the wind, but drives it back under the hood, stopping. A hybrid is when you have an internal combustion engine plus a motor on the battery. The whole point of the idea is that having dispersed the car once, then not to spend all this energy at once on air heating with brakes, seeing a red traffic light. Can you imagine how much of it, this energy of the moving two -ton colossus disappears at each stop? So, slowing down by an electric motor, you will not spend all its vains, but drive into the battery to turn again in motion, and not into an increase in your contribution to the greenhouse effect for your own money when green lights up. Toyota was the first in this matter, having made Prius, and in 2005 Lexus proposed the first premium casing with hybrid thrust. Today we meet the latest generation Lexus RX 450H.
A large dial to the left of the speedometer is not a tachometer, but a device that conditionally shows the operating mode of the drive
You get behind the wheel, press the start button the same as in gasoline lexus, and it seems to you that the car has broken. Because nothing happens. However, if nothing happens, it does not mean that nothing is ready to begin to happen. Feel free to translate the machine gun selector or, better, a machine telegraph, he does not directly control the transmission here, but only expresses your fundamental desire to go to position D. Now press on the gas, and the car will silently withdraw from the place on electric traction. Basin V6 3.5 will wake up unnoticed and only when the car itself decides that its intervention is already necessary to recharge the batteries.
The movement of energy flows can be monitored on a huge screen. This is a funny game to watch the power wander around the car back and forth and direct it with the movement of the gas pedal. If you do not pay attention to the details of the process, it will only remain quite convenient, so as not to notice its features, the drive, silent movement and reduced fuel consumption in urban traffic jams.
The manual selection mode of the programs allows you to control the parameters of the drive, for example, to enhance the effect of braking by the drive. Separately, one can note the feeling of the brake pedal, which was completely not affected by hybrid technologies, like handling and car dynamics
In a test trip along the Hungarian paths of local importance, the full -size crossover spent 7.2 liters of gasoline per 100 km of a very smooth track along the highway, and rested on the light traffic of entrances to Budapest, did not raise it, but on the contrary, he lowered the fuel consumption level to 6.8 l. It looks wild for an ordinary car, but naturally for a hybrid, which in a dilated urban mode shows its strongest sides.
Is fuel saving important so when you decide to purchase a full-size premium-heater at a hundred thousand dollars? There is no universal answer, because no one hides that today it is more likely than an economic decision. This machine is a personal step into the future and the opportunity to use the most modern technologies in everyday life. And with a hybrid drive, everything is not limited to it everything is just beginning. All that should be today with the Big Lexus, RX 450H has.
Text Dmitry Sokolov
Source: Cars
